Running Monday through April 3, the first Light City Baltimore festival will soon take over the Inner Harbor with 50 installations of tech art, while potentially drawing hundreds of thousands of visitors. While the event’s success remains to be seen, one thing is for certain: It’s going to be harder...
Binge-viewing is fast becoming the new national pastime: 70% of U.S. consumers now binge-watch TV shows, with Americans gulping down an average of five episodes per marathon session, according to a study by consulting firm Deloitte. The study, conducted last fall, also found that 61% of streaming...
Last night on "The Voice," 12 more artist stepped into the ring, and after the battle rounds, only eight are left standing. A handful of unique pairings left coaches with tough decisions — leading Adam and Blake to expand their teams. But it was coach Pharrell who took the biggest gamble of the...
At 85, Marjorie sometimes forgets to eat, or just doesn't bother — especially since even taking a spoonful of peanut butter means having to confront the type with "the oil slick at the top" of the jar, which her daughter insists on buying. Marjorie, the central figure in Jordan Harrison's intriguing...
Yuri Temirkanov's tenure as Baltimore Symphony Orchestra music director lasted a relatively short span, from 1999 to 2006, but it had started to take on the status of a golden age well before it ended. The Russian conductor's admirers have had to wait a long decade to see him back on the BSO podium...
After a decade-long absence, Yuri Temirkanov is back in town this week to conduct the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, which he led for seven memorable seasons. Now music director emeritus, Temirkanov is leading the BSO in Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 4 and, with powerhouse soloist Denis Matsuev, Rachmaninoff's...
It's Monday night and the Baltimore Choral Arts Society, as usual, is packed inside a room of the Fellowship Hall at Grace United Methodist Church in North Baltimore, where the ensemble rehearses for 21/2 hours just about every Monday between September and June. At a podium, music director Tom...
Well, almost done. You know how it is. A franchise must eat and make hay while the sun shines and the customers still give a rip. As we learned with "Harry Potter," and then with "Twilight," and then with "The Hunger Games," and now with "Divergent," the rule is this: The last book in the series...
In the cranky, foul-mouthed tradition of bad grandpas, bad teachers, bad Santas and so forth, "The Bronze" unveils yet another vinegar-spirited comedic antihero: the bad sport. Catapulting herself into the public eye, "The Big Bang Theory's" Melissa Rauch stars as Hope Ann Greggory, an Olympic...
Sally Field gives perhaps the year's first Oscar-worthy lead actress performance in the funny, beguiling and affecting "Hello, My Name Is Doris," a brave little film that shows it's never too late to come of age. As Doris Miller, a shy, sixtysomething office drone with a recently deceased mother,...
Beautiful yet unapproachable, opaque and occasionally incomprehensible, "Knight of Cups" shares its personality with its self-absorbed Hollywood characters. Which makes it business as usual for its unconcerned writer-director, Terrence Malick. From "Badlands" and "Days of Heaven," his earliest...